We have now completed our historical survey. It would be possible to carry the story further, for the decades after the hesychast controversy saw a substantial interest in Aquinas among the Byzantines. The Summa Contra Gentiles was translated into Greek in 1355, and other works, including the Summa Theologiae, soon followed. They provoked a lively controversy, with a small but vigorous minority (led by the translators, Demetrius and Prochorus Cydones) seeking to persuade their countrymen of the merits of Thomism. This sudden expansion of horizons contributed to the turbulence of Byzantine intellectual life in its final days, helping make possible the originality of men like Gemisto Plethon and Cardinal Bessarion, who initiated the revival of Platonism in the Renaissance. No doubt it was the Byzantines' growing sense of desperation that opened their minds to the possibility that they might have something to learn from the West.